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The Federal Trade Commission says people are falling for online "task scams" in record numbers. These scams involve fraudsters promising compensation for simple online tasks. In the first half of ...

This follows the passage of legislation through the Australian parliament

More intelligence sharing between banks, biometric identity scans, and double checks when you are paying someone new are ...

A major media outlet had to shut down its social media after an AI video showing a fake ...

Social media-fueled scams offer 'too good to be true' ways to avoid paying taxes, the agency says.

By Lisa Gerstner From Kiplinger's Personal Finance The number of publicly reported data compromises in the United States ...

Australia will likely implement a national digital ID for its population in the coming months and years.

A New York man claims he lost $4,000 from his Visa Vanilla cards in 2022 and 2023, and ...

Exeprts issue a warning that the integration of artificial intelligence is poised to catapult scams to unprecedented levels ...

Nearly 60 percent of British Columbians have received foreign scam phone calls or messages in Cantonese or Mandarin ...

Quebec provincial police say they have arrested 10 people in connection with an alleged grandparent fraud scheme linked ...

Amazon just warned millions of Americans to watch out for a new scam that's been concocted to steal ...

In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey flooded my town with 40 inches of rain and millions of gallons of ...

By Paul F. P. Pogue From Ask Angi Nearly all contracting jobs go smoothly. You hire them, they ...

Australia will launch a temporary task force known as a “fusion cell” to combat the growing issue of ...

Commentary Even in good economic times, scams, rackets, and cons always threaten regular people. But in bad economic ...

Many cash apps make it easy to purchase or transfer money. Their convenience makes them popular, and may ...

Victims of cryptocurrency scams lost five times more money last year when compared to other types of internet ...

By Laurie Baratti From TravelPulse Plenty of travelers have already solidified plans for their summer escapes, but among ...

Text and online scammers will be targeted by a new government-backed fraud squad made up of 400 elite ...

Online scammers have gotten so sneaky lately that it’s not just your elderly grandparents at risk—boomers, millennials, and ...

By Lisa Gerstner From Kiplinger's Personal Finance Andrew Hartnett, deputy commissioner of the Iowa Insurance Division and president ...

Losses to cryptocurrency scams have risen nationwide, but British Columbia has had a particularly large spike with scams ...

The IRS has issued a warning to taxpayers and businesses about unscrupulous promoters who are falsely advertising the ...

The ads are compelling. "If you have at least $10,000 of credit card debt, you are eligible to ...

By Janet Bodnar From Kiplinger's Personal Finance Eric Iversen, author of “How to Be Cyber Safe + Savvy,” ...

When people read about failed investments, a common misconception is that the victims must not have thought things ...